Organic Vegetable Gardening Nursery Landscaping Guide

Organic Vegetable Gardening For Your Fresh Fruit And Vegetables

By Pixie Matthews

Organic vegetable gardening is becoming rather popular, especially as people want to eat freshly picked produce, rather than the tasteless fruit you get from the grocery store. You may not realize all the delicious flavor of fruit and vegetables, until you have tried freshly picked fruit from your garden.

If you want to avoid chemical pesticides and herbicides, then organic vegetable gardening may be your solution. If all these chemicals kill weeds and insects, then you can imagine what they do to your overall state of health if you eat fruit and vegetables from plants treated with chemicals.

Becoming More Knowledgeable About Chemicals In The Garden

As the awareness of environmental issues grows so does the interest in organic vegetable gardening. We are becoming more knowledgeable about how we impact the earth with the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers and the fact that these chemicals may remain in the produce we eat.

Organic vegetables are simply the better choice and organic vegetable gardening can be the answer to avoiding the higher prices of those rather anemic vegetables you see in the super market.

Needs A Good Location With Lots Of Sun And No Trees

Good organic vegetable gardening starts with a good location that provides lots of sun with no trees to shade the garden or tree roots to rob your plants of nutrients. Your garden will also need a spot that is well drained and doesn’t sit in water after a hard rain. Once you have chosen the location for your garden the next step is to make sure you have good soil. This means adding lots of composed material.

You can easily make your own compost from organic kitchen waste and lawn clippings. One of the best additions to any garden is well composted animal manure and if you know a farmer or a horse rancher, it’s very likely that they will give you all you need to build a nutrient rich organic vegetable garden.

Safe Pest Control

Pest control can be one of the most challenging aspects of organic vegetable gardening but you want to use practices that are safe for the plants, as well as humans and animals. Healthy plants are less likely to develop insect infestations so always plant disease and insect resistant varieties.

Mulch plants to help keep the garden free of weeds that might harbor insects and use marigolds as companion plants as they repel insects. If you should find an occasional insect, it is best to simply pick it off and dispose of it.

Require A Lot Of Water To Produce Fruit

Vegetable gardens require a lot of water to produce fruit. Water early in the day so plants are not wet at night. This can cause mold and fungus. Conserve water by watering where it is needed, at the base of the plants and stay out of the garden when plants are wet to help prevent spreading disease.

Not only is organic vegetable gardening the best way to ensure chemical free vegetables for your family but it is an enjoyable and inexpensive pastime as well and what better pastime than to help improve the heath of the planet we live on.

Taste The Natural Flavour

When you produce your own fruit and vegetables, you can actually taste the natural flavour of freshly picked fruit. Making a sauce from freshly picked tomatoes is a delicious delight in our family. Adding some fresh cucumber and peppers to a salad adds to the overall taste. You may not realise all the taste and flavours of fresh fruit and vegetables until you use your own freshly picked produce from your garden.

When you buy produce from the store, you do not know how long the fruit has been in storage, time taken to transport to the store and how long it has been sitting on the shelf. When you pick your own fruit or vegetables from your organic vegetable garden, you know they are fresh and full of natural flavour.

About the Author:
Pixie Matthews has written a number of articles on gardening and landscaping including Organic Vegetable Gardening Products, Vegetable Gardening Tips, Spring Vegetable Gardening, Compost For Your Vegetable Garden, Vegetable Gardening Tricks, Composting, Compost Heap.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.

Little Known Gardening Facts....

How do organic foods affect the land?
Since organic farmers do not use the conventional pesticides to rid their crops of blight, or in the case of animal farmers not using antibiotics or growth hormones, larger plots of land must be used. They must plant more crops to account for the loss from disease or insects.

Do organic foods contain pesticides?
Organic foods do not contain any man-made pesticides. There are some growers who use natural chemicals found in plants and insects to protect their crops.

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